Tingent - A top tier partner in the gig economy

Tingent is a fast growing consultant broker based in Stockholm, Sweden. Our business focuses on efficient sourcing and delivery of the most hard-to-obtain consultants on the market to the most progressive companies in the industry.

Our story

Tingent was founded by Mattias Blohm and Daniel Laurén in 2015 to meet new demands in the rapidly changing tech industry. Both founders already had extensive experience from the consultant broker industry. Daniel had previously founded the consultant broker firm Madeo, which was later sold to ZeroChaos in 2011, while Mattias had worked for both of these companies and already knew the ins and outs of the industry.

Tingent today consists of a mix of people with backgrounds in tech recruiting, consultancy brokerage, staffing, marketing and business development—a team carefully composed in order to create the best possible foundation for our business to grow.

Our goal from day 1 has been to develop Tingent into a major player in the tech industry. Now, after 3 years, we have proved that our business model works. We work with every type and size of organization, from local startups to global unicorns, and we have one of the largest networks of high-end tech consultants in the marketplace.

We have placed over 260 consultants with our clients.

We reached SEK 113 Mkr in turnover in 2017.

We achieved an annual growth rate of 138% in 2017.

Our ability to source and deliver the most hard-to-obtain consultants in the market makes us unique. This ability has been a keystone factor in our rapid growth in our first three years of operations and for our continuously improving market position.

Where we're heading

We have a healthy and prosperous business but we are not satisifed yet. We now aim to grow even faster and to follow our customers to new markets in the years to come.

We have developed our organizational structure to support rapid growth and to take full advantage of the opportunities we see in the market. In the next 3–5 years, our target is to establish Tingent as a leading brand for contingent workforce management with a presence in every major tech hub in Europe.

The funding raised in this round will primarily be used to strengthen our position in the Swedish market, but also to lay an organizational foundation that will support our planned cross-border expansion.

Our plans for the next 24 months also includes a listing. In order for us to go forward with this decision we need to follow our budget according to plan and the listing market needs to stay favourable

We are doing this as a prerequisite for gaining access to some of the biggest clients in the market, which will help us to grow even more aggressively in the future.

Our business & market situation

Market size & trends

The IT industry is changing, and the shape of the workforce is changing with it. As organizations respond to the forces of globalization and technology innovation, they need to be agile enough to address rapidly shifting consumer preferences, to compete with more nimble startups and to be able to scale or descale resources depending on demand. In a low-growth environment, they also need to be able to rigorously manage costs.

To keep up with these changes, businesses have dramatically increased their use of contingent workers over the past couple of years. The impact of this trend has now become apparently evident in the marketplace, with 2017 representing the strongest year for the IT consultancy market in the last decade.

The total value of the Swedish IT consulting market in 2017 reached € 5.5 billion, following a year-on-year (YoY) growth of 3.6%. Strong growth has been seen across all market segments, with an emphasis on specialist roles as well as more business-related areas, such as project management and architecture.*

The consulting market is becoming increasingly fragmented, with a constantly growing number of consultancy firms and independent freelancers. This makes it more difficult for companies and organizations to get an overview of the supplier market and to quickly find the desired resources. To address this, brokerage services have become increasingly popular among companies across industries.

The part of the market volume managed through consultant brokers in the IT sector is still relatively small at 12%. However, with an annual growth rate of 27.5%, this segment is significantly outperforming the 3.6% industry average.*

The rise of the gig economy has spurred the growth of consultant brokerage across industries and we expect to see a continued steady or even increased growth in this sector over the forthcoming years as the concept becomes even more established. As an early mover in the market, this presents a major potential for growth for Tingent going forward.

What we do

The tech industry is constantly evolving and presents new techniques and innovation at a high pace, which leads to a continuous thirst for new expertise and flexibility in the workforce. To establish and maintain a network of consultants that is of sufficient size and quality to satisfy these needs is extremely time consuming and therefore also expensive.

We are experts at sourcing, profiling and handling individual consultants and small niche consultancy firms. With the opportunity to choose from one of Sweden’s largest networks of consultants, we can offer the best skills at the right price—when and where the customer needs it.

As consultant brokers, our biggest strength lies in being independent and having no consultants directly on our pay list. This allows us to impartially match assignments with the most appropriate consultant from the whole market. We work with every type and size of organization, from startups to market leaders, and deliver value regardless of the size of the company or the scale of their needs.

Our ability to quickly and accurately source and deliver the most hard-to-obtain consultants in the market makes us unique. This ability has been a keystone factor in our rapid growth in our first three years of operations and for our continuously improving market position.

OUR RECIPE FOR SUCCESS

Proactive Sourcing: We have a dedicated team that is constantly focused on growing our network in order to find the best possible consultant for each specific assignment.

Personal Contact: We build long-term relationships with both consultants and customers in order to learn what drives them. This enables us to deliver better quality with a better hit rate to our customers.

Quality Assurance: Our unique positioning between suppliers and clients makes it possible for us to benchmark similar profiles against each other. We focus solely on the best possible match between client and consultant in terms of required skills, pricing, and personal motivation.

Delivery Capacity: Since we are not limited to only employed consultants, we can deliver both faster and more accurate compared to many of our competitors. We continuously expand our network until we find a matching consultant.

Revenue Model

Tingents revenue model is based on a service fee to the consultant’s hourly rate. Typically, our margin is 10%, which gives us an average monthly income per consultant of approximately SEK 12 000. With an average contract length of 9 months, this gives us a total contract value of SEK 108 000 per placement.

Traction and Growth

Tingent was founded in 2015 and we have accomplished some great things since we started.

We have placed over 260 consultants with our clients.

We have more than doubled our turnover year on year.

We have increased our monthly placement goals every month, which has the effect that we have also increased our turnover on a monthly basis.

We have heavily increased our network of consultants and we keep on expanding our network on a weekly basis.

Our biggest clients are also in a phase where they are expanding and growing continuously. We help support them in this phase and we grow together.

One of our success factors is and always will be, our ability to employ the right personnel. We doubled our staff over the last year, but we are still a small team and for us to expand according to our budget, we need to hire more people. In order to do so we need to increase our marketing effort.

So far Tingent has managed to grow to a SEK +100Mkr company without any significant marketing effort. Now, we need to take the next step and continue to strengthen the hype around Tingent, and we believe that now is the right time to make a serious marketing effort. We already have the right people onboard to help us structure this and now we need to increase our budget in order for us to ensure this will be a success.

We expect that we will keep on expanding, but we will start to see the effect of this round next year, 2019.

Tingents main market for our growth is our home market, which is Stockholm, where we aim to gain a lot more market share in the forthcoming years. We have also started to slowly grow abroad with one of our existing clients and we plan to heavily increase this effort.

Our team

When starting Tingent, we decided to build an operational team and board of directors with a specific set of core competencies, based on our previous experiences in building a successful brokerage firm. This team made it possible for us to expand rapidly from the start.

While we’ve had a strong team from the start, we have since completed our team with a further mix of people from tech recruiting, consultancy brokerage, and staffing in order to create the best possible foundation for our business to grow.

We introcude Tingent’s core team and board members below.

Mattias Blohm

Co-founder and CEO

Extensive experience from the brokerage business with a large network of relevant suppliers and clients and has MSP experience from large-scale projects in Europe and the US. Formerly: Zerochaos, Madeo, and Accenture.

Daniel Laurén

Co-founder and Member of the Board

Startup entrepreneur, board professional, investor, and venture capitalist. Co-founder of Nordic contingent workforce leader Madeo (acquired by ZeroChaos 2011). One of the first employees at Academic Work, eWork, and early employee at Monster (Jobline). Daniel is also senior advisor of Invesdor in Sweden.

Andreas Samuelsson

COO and Co-Founder

Tech and startup enthusiast with extensive experience from tech recruitment. Previously built and managed recruitment teams in multiple locations. Likes to automate things and optimize processes to make things happen fast with a great outcome.

Linn Nyberg

Head of Sales and Marketing

Extensive experience in building and managing sales teams, business development, and recruitment. Responsible for managing and developing the sales organization, building the organizational culture, and letting the world know about Tingent. Formerly: Telenor and Academic Work.

Ola Grändås

Head of Delivery and Relations

Experienced and former tech recruiter, now responsible for Tingent’s delivery toward our clients. One of his primary tasks at the moment is to keep growing and developing our fantastic Delivery & Relations team.

Alexander Palm

Marketing & Business Development

An entrepreneur at heart who has been involved in multiple startups, both as a founder and as a consultant. At Tingent, Alexander has a multifaceted role in marketing and business development and is always on the look-out for ways to optimize the way we work and expand our market reach.

Lotta Hammarström

Investor and Member of the Board

Investor, board professional and senior Human Resources Consultant. 20 years of experience in both strategic and operative HR. Specialized in employer branding, strategic recruitment, and building an organizational culture in fast growing companies.

Christer Wallin

Investor and Member of the Board

An analytical entrepreneur and strategist with extensive international background in IT services, software, and supply chain solutions. With an eye for detail and a creative mind, being able not only to create a vision, but also to make it happen.

By signing up you will become part of the best growth company ecosystem, after which you will be able to see all information about the target companies including the company story, business model, market situation, team, goals and growth calculations. Additionally you will be able to easily communicate with the entrepreneurs, and of course make investments in companies of your choice.

Legal info

Subscribe to newsletter

Finance, let's dance.

Invesdor connects entrepreneurs from the European Economic Area with
investors worldwide. Invesdor Ltd is an investment firm supervised by
the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority (licence number FIVA 39/02.02.00/2014).